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14419
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8729
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671

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Ian H. Gilbert is affiliated with the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing substantially to the scientific understanding of infectious diseases and drug discovery.

The main fields of study in their work include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader categories, their focus touches on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Organic Chemistry, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their research addresses a range of important scientific topics such as Trypanosoma species research and its implications, Research on Leishmaniasis Studies, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation, Biochemical and Molecular Research, Malaria Research and Control, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by them encompass:

  • Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics, 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges, 2022, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • MalDA, Accelerating Malaria Drug Discovery, 2021, Trends in Parasitology
  • Plasmodium Kinases as Potential Drug Targets for Malaria: Challenges and Opportunities, 2021, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • Prioritization of Molecular Targets for Antimalarial Drug Discovery, 2021, ACS Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ian H. Gilbert include:

  • Kevin D. Read
  • Susan Wyllie
  • Fabio Zuccotto
  • Beatriz Baragaña
  • Manu De Rycker

The primary venues where their research is published reflect the scope and focus of their work. These include:

  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Omega
  • European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Ian H. Gilbert's contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics

    Marcus Miethke;Marco Pieroni;Tilmann Weber;Mark Brönstrup

  • Automated design of ligands to polypharmacological profiles

    Jérémy Besnard;Gian Filippo Ruda;Vincent Setola;Keren Abecassis

  • Lessons learnt from assembling screening libraries for drug discovery for neglected diseases.

    Ruth Brenk;Alessandro Schipani;Daniel James;Agata Krasowski

  • A novel multiple-stage antimalarial agent that inhibits protein synthesis

    Beatriz Baragaña;Irene Hallyburton;Marcus C. S. Lee;Marcus C. S. Lee;Neil R. Norcross

  • Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: an ongoing challenge and a continuing need

    Mark C. Field;David Horn;Alan H. Fairlamb;Michael A. J. Ferguson

  • N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibitors as New Leads to Treat Sleeping Sickness.

    Julie A. Frearson;Stephen Brand;Stuart P. McElroy;Laura A.T. Cleghorn

  • Design and synthesis of a series of melamine-based nitroheterocycles with activity against Trypanosomatid parasites.

    Alessandro Baliani;Gorka Jimenez Bueno;Mhairi L. Stewart;Vanessa Yardley

  • Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases: Molecular Target-Based and Phenotypic Approaches

    Ian H. Gilbert

  • Challenges and recent progress in drug discovery for tropical diseases

    Manu De Rycker;Beatriz Baragaña;Suzanne L. Duce;Ian H. Gilbert

  • Target assessment for antiparasitic drug discovery

    Julie A. Frearson;Paul G. Wyatt;Ian H. Gilbert;Alan H. Fairlamb

  • Fragment-based hit identification: thinking in 3D.

    Andrew D Morley;Angelo Pugliese;Kristian Birchall;Justin Bower

  • Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of s-Triazine Substituted Polyamines as Potential New Anti-Trypanosomal Drugs

    Burkhard Klenke;Mhairi Stewart;Michael P. Barrett;Reto Brun

  • Dihydroquinazolines as a Novel Class of Trypanosoma brucei Trypanothione Reductase Inhibitors: Discovery, Synthesis, and Characterization of their Binding Mode by Protein Crystallography

    Stephen Patterson;Magnus S. Alphey;Deuan C. Jones;Emma J. Shanks

  • Comparison of a high-throughput high-content intracellular Leishmania donovani assay with an axenic amastigote assay.

    Manu De Rycker;Irene Hallyburton;John Thomas;Lorna Campbell

  • Inhibitors of dihydrofolate reductase in Leishmania and trypanosomes.

    Ian H Gilbert

  • Screening Congo Red and its analogues for their ability to prevent the formation of PrP-res in scrapie-infected cells.

    Hélène Rudyk;Snezana Vasiljevic;Ruth M. Hennion;Christopher R. Birkett

  • Preclinical candidate for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis that acts through proteasome inhibition.

    Susan Wyllie;Stephen Brand;Michael Thomas;Manu De Rycker

  • Target validation: linking target and chemical properties to desired product profile

    Paul G. Wyatt;Ian H. Gilbert;Kevin D. Read;Alan H. Fairlamb

  • Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 is a drug target for visceral leishmaniasis

    Susan Wyllie;Michael Thomas;Stephen Patterson;Sabrinia Crouch

  • Analogues of Thiolactomycin as Potential Antimalarial Agents

    Simon M. Jones;Jonathan E. Urch;Marcel Kaiser;Reto Brun

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Fairlamb
Alan H. Fairlamb University of Dundee
Reto Brun
Reto Brun University of Basel
Marcel Kaiser
Marcel Kaiser Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Michael P. Barrett
Michael P. Barrett University of Glasgow
Michael A. J. Ferguson
Michael A. J. Ferguson University of Dundee
Julio A. Urbina
Julio A. Urbina Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Simon L. Croft
Simon L. Croft London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Vanessa Yardley
Vanessa Yardley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keith S. Wilson
Keith S. Wilson University of York
Elizabeth A. Winzeler
Elizabeth A. Winzeler University of California, San Diego

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